Industrial buildings are good candidates for evaporative cooling. The facilities are typically quite large — with tens of thousands of square feet — and often have high roof structures (more than 30 feet) to provide crane clearance, manufacturing equipment clearance and racking systems.

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Forging — a manufacturing process of shaping metal by applying a variety of powerful compressive forces to it — is known for producing parts that have excellent fracture toughness and ductility while also offering impact resistance and fatigue strength. 

For critical process cooling applications, carefully taking into account the conditions in which your process chiller will be used, and the process for which it will be used, will help you identify the features most needed on your system. Use the following checklist as a guideline for purchasing industrial process chillers.

A test code for air-cooled fluid coolers — more commonly referred to as dry coolers — has been published by Houston-based Cooling Technology Institute. Its application is limited to the sensible cooling of water, aqueous glycol solutions and other homogeneous, single-phase process fluids. ATC-105DS applies to testing in both field and laboratory settings.

Designed to complement the company’s line of 1 to 30 ton chillers, VS Series is supplied with four variable-speed compressors that operate effectively between 10 percent and 100 percent of rated capacity. 

For decades, plastics processors have had to select chillers based on their maximum cooling-capacity requirements. While this approach ensures plenty of chiller capacity, it is not always energy efficient. 

During process cooling, the cooling water absorbs large volumes of airborne particulate while the cooling tower acts as an air scrubber, filtering the surrounding air. With time, these fine particles can build up and settle within the system, adversely affecting cooling performance while lowering the life of wetted subcomponents. 

The GP Series is available as water-cooled, air-cooled or remote air-cooled units. Air-cooled models, both local and remote, utilize microchannel air-cooled condenser coils.